Skiing Sideways: Stevens Pass Andromeda Face

So you get a good video of yourself skiing, and it’s sideways. Let’ blame it on YouTube for not having a “turn your video 90 degrees”, blame it on the camera which does not say this way up, blame it on me for not explaining the operation of the camera in the middle of a snow storm where it’s impossible to see the controls or that little 2″ X 1″ screen. Anyway here is me Skiing Sideways: Stevens Pass Andromeda Face (crank your head to the left):

Did you see the woman in the red dress? No, because there was no one on that run!

Andromeda is next to Southern Cross Chair, which has the highest elevation change of any lift on that mountain, on the back side of Stevens called Mill Valley (or Crackling Power Line Alley with the big BPA power lines running the length of it, that make a constant high intensity popping sound). The terrain is a steady angle down and has a rating of a single Black Diamond.

Stevens Pass was awesome today. Absolutely! The snow was deep in many parts of the mountain, and very skiable. Very fast skiing. Even the international kids who pay about $2000 to come to America on a work (J1?) visa to work at Stevens Pass (and Stevens Pass allegedly gets $1000 of their $2000 as payment), said it was a great day.

Even the girls on the Lyons Ski Team who yelled down from the chair at my snowboard partner that snowboarders need ski poles, probably thought it was a great day to ski.